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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8195612" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Well, that was probably because it wasn't the Jawas, remember? They were killed by Storm Troopers. Let me ask you, if a squad of heavily armed and armored Imperial Soldiers showed up in front of the farm family, do you think they are reaching for their guns first? No. They go and talk to the officials, and hope that the Empire doesn't bother them for too long.No, my point was that if they own a flying ship with a cannon mounted on it, they likely have a few guns as well. They have something far more powerful and deadly after all.Dude, you realize I'm looking all of this up, right? Probe Droids were made for "deep space reconnaissance" meaning they are supposed to be tough enough to survive in deep space. They would therefore have a hull that is quite tough, to avoid being destroyed by the first fleck of space dust. Also, those were the original models, the Empire specifically, well I'll quote the paragraph "As time went on, probot manufacturers began developing droids specifically for Imperial military applications....The resulting probe droids were faster, more lethal and much more efficient at snuffing out Rebels" Weaker than a person, yet able to "snuff out" Rebel forces. Oh, also, the TIE Fighter? Their hulls are made of Titanium. Yes, they lack shielding units because they were designed for speed and maneuverability, but Titanium isn't a weak metal. It can't stand up plasma which is what most of the other ships were firing, but shockingly I'd say that Titantium is stronger than flesh, and that weapons designed to destroy ships might be strong enough to destroy a ship.  No. The book says it. I THINK IT IS STUPID! I keep saying "this is what the book says, it is stupid. Here are the quotes." And yet people keep treating this like I'm making things up out of thin air. They keep telling me that my eyes are wrong and that the text isn't sitting directly in front of me, that I haven't posted it in its entirety multiple times. And as your own argument showed, Owen and Beru live in a dangerous world, and we have ample reason to believe that they had weapons for personal defense. Because the Star Wars writers realized that people tend to think about protecting their own lives. Oh, and by the way, here is a fun little clip I found [MEDIA=youtube]oTV2tS4nRPE:48[/MEDIA]Note that Luke runs to his car, and grabs a RIFLE. Showing that, again, the Moisture Farmers did have weapons. Because they lived in a dangerous world. A standard that I am applying, and that halflings specifically break.</blockquote>

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